§ The House met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, and Mr. SPEAKER-ELECT (Captain the Right hon. EDWARD ALGERNON FITZROY) having taken the Chair.
§ Message to attend the Lords Commissioners by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
§ The House went, and having returned,
§ Mr. SPEAKERI have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, His Majesty, by his Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the office of your Speaker, and that I have, in your name, and on your behalf, laid claim, by humble petition to His Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to His Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed upon all your proceedings. All these His Majesty, by his Commissioners, has been pleased to allow and confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by himself or any of His Royal predecessors.
My first duty to the House is to repeat my very respectful acknowledgment and grateful thanks for the great honour which you have conferred upon me in placing me again in the Chair.
I must now call upon the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance at the Table of the House. I will first take the oath myself.
§ Thereupon Mr. SPEAKER first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.
§ Mr. SPEAKERI will first call upon the Government Front Bench, then upon the Opposition Front Bench, and then upon Privy Councillors and ex-Members of Governments. After that, I will go from bench to bench.
§ The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:
§ Right honourable Stanley Baldwin, County of Worcester (Bewdley Division).
§ Right honourable Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, K. G. Borough of Birmingham (West Birmingham Division).
§ Right honourable Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Borough of Birmingham (Edgbaston Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, baronet, G.B.E., C.M.G., Borough of Chelsea.
§ Right honourable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, G. B. E., M.C., County of Middlesex (Hendon Division).
§ Right honourable Sir Donald Maclean, K.B.E., County of Cornwall (Northern Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel the Right honourable Sir John Gilmour, baronet, D.S.O., Burgh of Glasgow (Pollok Division).
§ Right honourable Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell, County of Worcester (Evesham Division).
§ Right honourable George Clement Tryon, (Borough of Brighton).
§ Right honourable Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, baronet, C.M.G., County of Caithness and Sutherland.
§ Right honourable William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, County of Stafford (Stafford Division).
§ Right honourable Sir Howard Kingsley Wood, knight, Borough of Woolwich (West Division).
§ Major Walter Elliot Elliot, M.C., Burgh of Glasgow (Kelvingrove Division).
§ Henry Graham White, esquire, Borough of Birkenhead (East Division).
§ Sir Robert William Hamilton, knight, County of Orkney and Zetland.
§ Right honourable Sir Edward Hilton Young, G.B.E., D.S.O., D.S.C., County of Kent (Sevenoaks Division).
§ Right honourable Craigie Mason Aitchison, County of Ayr and Bute (Kilmarnock Division).
§ Sir Frederick Charles Thomson, baronet K.C., Burgh of Aberdeen (South Division).
§ Robert Anthony Eden, esquire, County of Warwick (Warwick and Leamington Division).
§ George Masterman Gillett, esquire,. Borough of Finsbury.
15§ Archibald Noel Skelton, esquire, The University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.
§ Isaac Foot, esquire, County of Cornwall (Bodmin Division).
§ Captain Henry David Reginald Margesson, M.C., County of Warwick (Rugby Division).
§ Alfred Duff Cooper, esquire, D.S.O., Borough of Westminster (St George's Division).
§ Sir George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, knight, M.C., County of Bucks (Buckingham Division).
§ Percy John Pybus, esquire, C.B.E., County of Essex (Harwich Division).
§ Sir George Penny, Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames.
§ Captain David Euan Wallace, M.C., Borough of Hornsey.
§ William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, esquire, commonly called the Marquess of Titchfield, County of Nottingham (Newark Division).
§ Murdoch McKenzie Wood, esquire, County of Banff.
§ William Lygon, esquire, commonly called Viscount Elmley, County of Norfolk (Eastern Division).
§ Right honourable George Lansbury, Borough of Poplar (Bow and Bromley Division).
§ Clement Richard Attlee, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Limehouse Division).
§ Charles Edwards, esquire, County of Monmouth (Bedwellty Division).
§ Right honourable Josiah Clement Wedgwood, Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
§ William Lunn, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Rothwell Division).
§ Morgan Jones, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Caerphilly Division).
§ John James Lawson, esquire, County of Durham (Chester-le-Street Division).
§ Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, commonly called the honourable Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, knight, K.C., Borough of Bristol (East Division).
§ John Allen Parkinson, esquire, Borough of Wigan.
§ George Henry Hall, esquire, Borough of Merthyr Tydvil (Aberdare Division).
§ Rhys John Davies, esquire, County of Lancaster (Westhoughton Division).
16§ Thomas Griffiths, esquire, County of Monmouth (Pontypool Division).
§ Duncan MacGregor Graham, esquire, County of Lanark (Hamilton Division).
§ Thomas Williams, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Don Valley Division).
§ David Rees Grenfell, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Gower Division).
§ Right honourable James Ian Macpherson, K.C., County of Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty (Ross and Cromarty Division).
§ Goronwy Owen, esquire, County of Carnarvon.
§ Captain the Right honourable Frederick Edward Guest, Borough of Plymouth (Drake Division).
§ Right honourable John Gretton, County of Stafford (Burton Division).
§ Right honourable Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, Borough of Birmingham (Sparkbrook Division).
§ Right honourable John Colin Campbell Davidson, C. H., C.B., County of Hertford (Hemel Hempstead Division).
§ Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl, County of Perth and Kinross (Kinross and Western Division).
§ Right honourable Roundell Cecil Palmer, commonly called Viscount Wolmer, County of Hants (Aldershot Division).
§ Right honourable Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, commonly called Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, Borough of Hastings.
§ Right honourable Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, baronet, K.B.E., Borough of Croydon (South Division).
§ Right honourable Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, baronet, County of Warwick (Tamworth Division).
§ Right honourable George Lambert, County of Devon (South Molton Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel the Right honourable Wilfrid William Ashley, County of Hants (New Forest and Christchurch Division).
§ Right honourable Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, C.M.G., M.C., County of Kent (Tonbridge Division).
§ Major the Right honourable John Waller Hills, County of York, West Riding (Ripon Division).
17§ Right honourable Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson, County of Middlesex (Wood Green Division).
§ Colonel the Right honourable William Graham Nicholson, County of Hants (Petersfield Division).
§ Major-General Sir Robert Hutchison, K.C.M.G., Montrose District of Burghs.
§ Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, baronet, County of Antrim.
§ Right honourable Sir James Rennell Rodd, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Borough of St. Marylebone.
§ Arthur Michael Samuel, esquire, County of Surrey (Farnham Division).
§ Walter Russell Rea, esquire, Borough of Dewsbury.
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson, knight, M.C., County of Essex (Chelmsford Division).
§ Sir Patrick Johnston Ford, baronet, Burgh of Edinburgh (North Division).
§ Sir Godfrey Pattison Collins, Burgh of Greenock.
§ Gwilym Lloyd George, esquire, County of Pembroke.
§ Wilfrid Guild Normand, esquire, K.C., Burgh of Edinburgh (West Division).
§ Sir Henry Bucknall Betterton, baronet, County of Nottingham (Rushcliffe Division).
§ Sir William Edge, knight, County of Leicester (Bosworth Division).
§ Cyril Fullard Entwistle, esquire, Borough of Bolton.
§ Neil Maclean, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Govan Division).
§ Thomas Sinclair, esquire, C.B., Queen's University of Belfast.
§ Sir George Clements Hamilton, knight, Borough of Ilford.
§ Vice-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, C.M.G., C.V.O., Borough of Paddington (South Division).
§ William Hannah McLean, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Tradeston Division).
§ James Campbell Morrison Guy, esquire, M.C., Burgh of Edinburgh (Central Division).
§ Allen Algernon Bathurst, esquire, commonly called Lord Apsley, Borough of Bristol (Central Division).
§ John Train, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Cathcart Division).
§ Cecil Frederick Pike, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Attercliffe Division).
§ Hamer Field Russell, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Brightside Division).
18§ James Stones, esquire, County of Lancaster (Farnworth Division).
§ Right honourable Walter Runciman, County of Cornwall (St. Ives Division).
§ Noel Barré Goldie, esquire, K.C., Borough of Warrington.
§ Richard Douglas Denman, esquire, commonly called the honourable Richard Douglas Denman, Borough of Leeds (Central Division).
§ Sir Francis John Childs Ganzoni, baronet, Borough of Ipswich.
§ Colonel Sir Albert Lambert Ward, baronet, D.S.O., Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (North-West Division).
§ Archibald Richard James Southby, esquire, County of Surrey (Epsom Division).
§ William Shepherd Morrison, esquire, M.C., County of Gloucester (Cirencester and Tewkesbury Division).
§ Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle, knight, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (North Division).
§ Richard Austen Butler, esquire, County of Essex (Saffron Walden Division).
§ Right honourable Sir Herbert Louis Samuel, G.C.B., G.B.E., County of Lancaster (Darwen Division).
§ Sir Ernest Whittome Shepperson, knight, County of Hereford (Leominster Division).
§ James Purdon Lewes Thomas, esquire, County of Hereford (Hereford Division).
§ Sir Bertram Godfray Falle, baronet, Borough of Portsmouth (North Division).
§ Captain Derrick Wellesley Gunston, M.C., County of Gloucester (Thornbury Division).
§ Captain Charles Waterhouse, M.C., Borough of Leicester (South Division).
§ Peter Drummond Macdonald, esquire, County of Isle of Wight.
§ Walter James Womersley, esquire, Borough of Grimsby.
§ William James Thorne, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Plaistow Division).
§ John Henry Williams, esquire, County of Carmarthen (Llanelly Division).
§ David Williams, esquire, Borough of Swansea (East Division).
§ Richard Collingham Wallhead, esquire, Borough of Merthyr Tydvil (Merthyr Division).
§ David Lewis Davies, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Pontypridd Division).
19§ Thomas Walter Grundy, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Rother Valley Division).
§ George Henry Hirst, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Wentworth Division).
§ Austin Hopkinson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Mossley Division).
§ Charles Brown, esquire, County of Nottingham (Mansfield Division).
§ John Joseph Tinker, esquire, Borough of Leigh.
§ Gordon Macdonald, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ince Division).
§ David Gilbert Logan, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Scotland Division).
§ Sir William Jenkins, knight, County of Glamorgan (Neath Division).
§ James Milner, esquire, Borough of Leeds (South-East Division).
§ Gabriel Price, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Hemsworth Division).
§ David Morgan Adams, esquire, Borough of Poplar (South Poplar Division).
§ William John, esquire, Borough of Rhondda (West Division).
§ Frederick Seymour Cocks, esquire, County of Nottingham (Broxtowe Division).
§ Aneurin Bevan, esquire, County of Monmouth (Ebbw Vale Division)
§ Right honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon, G.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., County of York, West Riding (Spen Valley Division).
§ George Wilfrid Holford Knight, esquire, K.C., Borough of Nottingham (South Division).
§ Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, esquire, Borough of Norwich.
§ James Duncan Millar, esquire, K.C., County of Fife (Eastern Division).
§ Frederick Llewellyn-Jones, esquire, County of Flint.
§ John Henry Morris-Jones, esquire, County of Denbigh (Denbigh Division).
§ Arthur Harbord, esquire, Borough of Great Yarmouth.
§ Dugald McCoig Cowan, esquire, The University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.
§ James Blindell, esquire, County of Holland with Boston.
§ Richard John Russell, esquire, County of Chester (Eddisbury Division).
§ Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks, K.C., County of Wilts (Swindon Division).
20§ Reginald Clare Essenhigh, esquire, County of Lancaster (Newton Division).
§ William Craven-Ellis, esquire, Borough of Southampton.
§ Ernest Harold Pickering, esquire, Borough of Leicester (West Division).
§ Sir Alexander Nairne Stewart Sandeman, baronet, County of Lancaster (Middleton and Prestwich Division).
§ John McGovern, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Shettleston Division).
§ Colonel Chichester de Windt Crookshank, Borough of Bootle.
§ David Kirkwood, esquire, Dumbarton District of Burghs.
§ Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft, baronet, C.M.G., T.D., Borough of Bournemouth.
§ James Maxton, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Bridgeton Division).
§ Luke Thompson, esquire, Borough of Sunderland.
§ Alfred Bakewell Howitt, esquire, Borough of Reading.
§ Edward Marjoribanks, esquire, County of East Sussex (Eastbourne Division).
§ George Buchanan, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Gorbals Division).
§ Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, K.B.E., Borough of Sheffield (Park Division).
§ Sir Frank Boyd Merriman, Borough of Manchester (Rusholme Division).
§ Victor Alexander Cazalet, esquire, County of Wilts (Chippenham Division).
§ George Balfour, esquire, Borough of Hampstead.
§ Sir John Cecil Power, baronet, Borough of Wimbledon.
§ Sir William Henry Davison, K.B.E., Borough of Kensington (South Division).
§ Henry Victor Alpin Mackinnon Raikes, esquire, County of Essex (South-Eastern Division).
§ Douglas Jamieson, esquire, K.C., Burgh of Glasgow (Maryhill Division).
§ James Horace Lockwood, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Shipley Division).
§ Helen Brown Shaw, M.B.E., County of Lanark (Bothwell Division).
§ Major George Frederick Davies, County of Somerset (Yeovil Division).
§ Captain Alexander Frederick Douglas Home, commonly called Lord Dunglass, County of Lanark (Lanark Division).
21§ Lieutenant William John Anstruther-Gray, County of Lanark (Northern Division).
§ Annesley Ashworth Somerville, esquire, County of Berks (Windsor Division).
§ Godfrey Harold Alfred Wilson, esquire, Cambridge University.
§ Sir Joseph Quinton Lamb, County of Stafford (Stone Division).
§ Captain William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, C.B.E., Borough of St. Pancras (North Division).
§ Major Samuel Emile Harvey, County of Devon (Totnes Division).
§ John Vigers Worthington, esquire, County of Gloucester (Forest of Dean Division).
§ Francis Noel Palmer, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (South Division).
§ Sir John Hugo Rutherford, baronet, Borough of Liverpool (Edge Hill Division).
§ Alfred Roy Wise, esquire, Borough of Smethwick.
§ Geoffrey Kelsall Peto, esquire, Borough of Wolverhampton (Bilston Division).
§ Sydney Richard Wells, esquire, County of Bedford (Bedford Division).
§ Albert William Goodman, esquire, Borough of Islington (North Division).
§ Major John Jacob Astor, commonly called Major the Honourable John Jacob Astor, County of Kent (Dover Division).
§ Edward John Williams, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Ogmore Division).
§ Thomas Cape, esquire, County of Cumberland (Workington Division).
§ Thomas Somerset, esquire, Borough of Belfast (North Belfast Division).
§ William Gordon Douglas Hutchison, esquire, County of Essex (Romford Division).
§ Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden, Borough of Leyton (West Division).
§ Harold Leslie Boyce, esquire, Borough of Gloucester.
§ Percy Angier Hurd, esquire, County of Wilts (Devizes Division).
§ Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart, esquire, commonly called Lord Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart, County of Chester (Northwich Division).
§ Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, baronet, K.B.E., County of Monmouth (Monmouth Division).
§ William Leonard, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (St. Rollox Division).
22§ John Joseph Jones, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Silvertown Division).
§ David Robert Alexander Lindsay, esquire, commonly called Lord Balniel, County of Lancaster (Lonsdale Division).
§ Alexander Ramsay, esquire, Borough of West Bromwich.
§ Edmund Maurice Burke, Lord Fermoy, County of Norfolk (King's Lynn Division).
§ Alfred Ernest Brown, esquire, Burgh of Leith.
§ John Buchan, esquire, The University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.
§ Major Harry Louis Nathan, Borough of Bethnal Green (North-east Division).
§ Charles Harold Summersby, esquire, Borough of Shoreditch.
§ Rhys Hopkin Morris, esquire, County of Cardigan.
§ William McKeag, esquire, County of Durham (Durham Division).
§ Lewis Jones, esquire, Borough of Swansea (West Division).
§ Henry Haydn Jones, esquire, County of Merioneth.
§ Ernest Evans, esquire, Wales University.
§ William Mabane, esquire, Borough of Huddersfield.
§ James Armand Edmond de Rothschild, esquire, County of Isle of Ely.
§ Dingle Mackintosh Foot, esquire, Burgh of Dundee.
§ Wing Commander Archibald William Henry James, M.C., County of Northampton, with the Soke of Peterborough (Wellingborough Division).
§ Sidney John Peters, esquire, County of Huntingdon.
§ Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb, K.B.E., M.V.O., Borough of Fulham (West Division).
§ Major Isidore Salmon, C.B.E., County of Middlesex (Harrow Division).
§ Captain Walter D'Arcy Hall, County of Brecon and Radnor.
§ Eugene Joseph Squire Hargreaves Ramsden, esquire, Borough of Bradford (North Division).
§ John Purcell Dickie, esquire, County of Durham (Consett Division).
§ Richard Thomas Evans, esquire, County of Carmarthen (Carmarthen Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, baronet, K.B.E., D.S.O., Borough of Camberwell (Dulwich Division).
§ George Harvey, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Kennington Division).
23§ Charles Granville Gibson, esquire, County of York, West Biding (Pudsey and Otley Division).
§ Cecil Hanbury, esquire, County of Dorset (Northern Division).
§ Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., Borough of Burnley.
§ Basil Kelsey Barton, esquire, Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (Central Division).
§ Oliver Edwin Simmonds, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Duddeston Division).
§ Lieutenant-Commander Robert Tatton Bower, R.N. (retired), County of York, North Riding (Cleveland Division).
§ Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson, knight, Borough of Brighton.
§ Captain Herbert James Moss, County of Lanark (Rutherglen Division).
§ Mavis Constance Tate, Borough of Willesden (West Division).
§ William Whytehead Boulton, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Central Division).
§ Edward William Spencer Cavendish, esquire, commonly called the Marquess of Hartington, County of Derby (Western Division).
§ Terence James O'Connor, esquire, K.C., Borough of Nottingham (Central Division).
§ William Henton Carver, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Howdenshire Division).
§ Gordon Ralph Hall-Caine, esquire, County of Dorset (Eastern Division). Ronald Hibbert Cross, esquire, Borough of Rossendale.
§ John Helias Finnie McEwen, esquire, County of Berwick and Haddington.
§ Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, knight, C.B.E., K.C., County of Hants (Fareham Division).
§ Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd Carpenter, County of Surrey (Chertsey Division).
§ Owen Temple Morris, esquire, Borough of Cardiff (East Division).
§ Major Lionel Beaumont Thomas, M.C., Borough of Birmingham (King's Norton Division).
§ Oswald Lewis, esquire, County of Essex (Colchester Division).
§ Major-General Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox, K.C.B., C.M.G., County of Bucks (Wycombe Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Pelham Heneage, County of Parts of Lindsey (Louth Division).
§ John George Burnett, esquire, Burgh of Aberdeen (North Division).
§ Alan McLean, esquire, County of Norfolk (South-Western Division).
24§ Brigadier-General Ernest Makins, C.B., D.S.O., County of Chester (Knutsford Division).
§ Waldron Smithers, esquire, County of Kent (Chislehurst Division).
§ Major Charles Glen MacAndrew, Burgh of Glasgow (Partick Division).
§ Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Fairfield Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert John Acland-Troyte, C.M.G., D.S.O., County of Devon (Tiverton Division).
§ Abraham John Flint, esquire, County of Derby (Ilkeston Division).
§ Sidney Hope, esquire, County of Chester (Stalybridge and Hyde Division).
§ Brevet-Colonel John Broadbent, Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne.
§ Robert Chapman, esquire, County of Durham (Houghton-le-Spring Division).
§ Gustav Adolph Renwick, esquire, County of Lancaster (Stretford Division).
§ Captain Thomas Lionel Dugdale, County of York, North Riding (Richmond Division).
§ Anthony John Muirhead, esquire, County of Somerset (Wells Division).
§ Alexander West Russell, esquire, Borough of Tynemouth.
§ George Christopher Clayton, esquire, C.B.E., County of Chester (Wirral Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, C.B.E., Ayr District of Burghs.
§ Captain Ronald Robert Henderson, County of Oxford (Henley Division).
§ Ida Copeland, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Stoke Division).
§ Thomas Ballantyne Martin, esquire, County of Durham (Blaydon Division).
§ Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, County of Salop (The Wrekin Division).
§ Richard Austin Spencer, esquire, Borough of St. Helens.
§ Sir John Haslam, knight, Borough of Bolton.
§ Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson, Borough of Ealing.
§ John Patrick Morris, esquire, Borough of Salford (North Division).
§ Samuel Storey, esquire, Borough of Sunderland.
§ Edward Doran, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (North Division).
§ George Steven Harvie Watt, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Keighley Division).
§ Wilfrid Dewhurst Wills, esquire, Borough of Batley and Morley.
25§ Alexander Crawford Browne, esquire, Borough of Belfast (West Belfast Division).
§ William Humble Eric Ward, esquire, commonly called Viscount Ednam, M.C., Borough of Wednesbury.
§ Walter Ross Taylor, esquire, C.B.E., County of East Suffolk (Woodbridge Division).
§ John Frederick Eales, esquire, K.C, Borough of Birmingham (Erdington Division).
§ Malcolm Campbell-Johnston, esquire, Borough of East Ham (South Division).
§ Sir Herbert Paul Latham, County of York, North Riding (Scarborough and Whitby Division).
§ Colonel Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, County of Essex (Maldon Division).
§ Ernest Roy Bird, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Skipton Division).
§ William Nunn, esquire, County of Cumberland (Whitehaven Division).
§ Roland Jennings, esquire, County of Durham (Sedgefield Division).
§ John Smedley Crooke, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Deritend Division).
§ Edward William Salt, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Yardley Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William James Allen, K.B.E., D.S.O., County of Armagh.
§ Peter Garnett Agnew, esquire, County of Cornwall (Camborne Division).
§ Captain Frank Frederick Alexander Heilgers, County of West Suffolk (Bury St. Edmunds Division).
§ Colonel Henry Walter Burton, O.B.E., County of West Suffolk (Sudbury Division).
§ Edward Brocklehurst Fielden, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Exchange Division).
§ Aaron Charlton Curry, esquire, County of Durham (Bishop Auckland Division).
§ Thomas Magnay, esquire, Borough of Gateshead.
§ Edward Leslie Burgin, esquire, County of Bedford (Luton Division).
§ Leslie Hore-Belisha, esquire, Borough of Plymouth (Devonport Division).
§ Major William Philip Colfox, M.C., County of Dorset (Western Division).
§ Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, Borough of Plymouth (Sutton Division).
§ Irving James Albery, esquire, County of Kent (Gravesend Division).
26§ William George Howard Gritten, esquire, Borough of the Hartlepools.
§ Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Doncaster Division).
§ Sir Frederick Mills, baronet, Borough of Leyton (East Division).
§ Michael Wentworth Beaumont, esquire, County of Buckingham (Aylesbury Division).
§ Thomas Edward Jesson, esquire, Borough of Rochdale.
§ John Potter, esquire, Borough of Eccles.
§ Captain Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull, M.C., commonly called Captain the honourable Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull, M.C., County of Kent (Ashford Division).
§ Sarah Adelaide Ward, County of Stafford (Cannock Division).
§ Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser Sueter, C.B., R.N. (retired), County of Hertford (Hertford Division).
§ Thomas Levy, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Elland Division).
§ Albert Newby Braithwaite, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Buck-rose Division).
§ Gilbert Gledhill, esquire, Borough of Halifax.
§ Frederick Fergus Graham, esquire, County of Cumberland (Northern Division).
§ Herwald Ramsbotham, esquire, County of Lancaster (Lancaster Division).
§ Thelma Cazalet, Borough of Islington (East Division).
§ Irene Mary Bewick Ward, C.B.E., Borough of Wallsend.
§ William Frederick Strickland, esquire, Borough of Coventry.
§ Joseph William Leech, esquire, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (West Division).
§ Edward Tempest Tunstall North, esquire, County of Warwick (Nuneaton Division).
§ Borras Noel Hamilton Whiteside, esquire, Borough of Leeds (South Division).
§ Alfred James Chotzner, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Upton Division).
§ David Marshall Mason, esquire, Burgh of Edinburgh (East Division).
§ Captain Clifford Charles Allen Lawrence Erskine-Bolst, Borough of Blackpool.
§ Samuel Thomas Rosbotham, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ormskirk Division).
27§ Alan Livesay Stuart Todd, esquire, County of Stafford (Kingswinford Division).
§ William Allan Reid, esquire, Borough of Derby.
§ Samuel Servington Savery, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Holderness Division).
§ Sir John Dearman Birchall, Borough of Leeds (North-East Division).
§ John Francis Ashley Erskine, esquire, commonly called Lord Erskine, County of Somerset (Weston-super-Mare Division).
§ Sir James Philip Reynolds, baronet, Borough of Liverpool (Exchange Division).
§ Cyril Tom Culverwell, esquire, Borough of Bristol (West Division).
§ Sir Walter Greaves-Lord, knight, K.C., Borough of Lambeth (Norwood Division).
§ Frank Hornby, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Everton Division).
§ Noel Ker Lindsay, esquire, Borough of Bristol (South Division).
§ Sir Henry Strother Cautley, baronet, K.C., County of East Sussex (East Grinstead Division).
§ Colin Mark Patrick, esquire, County of Devon (Tavistock Division).
§ Alfred John Kennett Todd, esquire, County of Northumberland (Berwick-upon-Tweed Division).
§ Captain Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, County of Parts of Lindsey (Gainsborough Division).
§ William George Pearson, esquire, County of Durham (Jarrow Division).
§ Harold Sutcliffe, esquire, County of Lancaster (Royton Division).
§ Louis William Smith, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Hallam Division).
§ Robert Hugh Turton, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Thirsk and Malton Division).
§ James Orr MacAndrew, esquire, County of Ayr and Bute (South Ayrshire Division).
§ Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook, esquire, County of Norfolk (Northern Division).
§ Richard George Briscoe, esquire, County of Cambridge.
§ Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans, esquire, County of Derby (Southern Division).
§ Charles Williams, esquire, County of Devon (Torquay Division).
28§ Norah Cecil Runge, Borough of Bermondsey (Rotherhithe Division).
§ Ian Macdonald Horobin, esquire, Borough of Southwark (Central Division).
§ Edward Taswell Campbell, esquire, Borough of Bromley.
§ Lieutenant-Colonel John Mayhew, Borough of East Ham (North Division).
§ Major Albert James Edmondson, County of Oxford (Banbury Division).
§ James Douglas Cooke, esquire, Borough of Hammersmith (South Division).
§ George Herbert, esquire, Borough of Rotherham.
§ Clifford William Hudson Glossop, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Penistone Division).
§ Robert Rankin, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Kirkdale Division).
§ James Francis Wallace Galbraith, esquire, County of Surrey (Eastern Division).
§ Sir John Sandeman Allen, knight, Borough of Liverpool (West Derby Division).
§ John Sandeman Allen, esquire, Borough of Birkenhead (West Division).
§ Sir Philip Dawson, knight, Borough of Lewisham (West Division).
§ George Albert Hartland, esquire, Borough of Norwich.
§ Harry Ralph Selley, esquire, Borough of Battersea (South Division).
§ Samuel Schofield Hammersley, esquire, Borough of Stockport.
§ Jardine Bell Whyte, esquire, County of Derby (North-Eastern Division).
§ Frank Edward Clarke, esquire, County of Kent (Dartford Division).
§ Joseph Hepworth, esquire, Borough of Bradford (East Division).
§ Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont, esquire, commonly called the honourable Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont, Borough of Portsmouth (Central Division).
§ Captain Harold Harington Balfour, M.C., County of Kent (Isle of Thanet Division).
§ William MacColin Kirkpatrick, esquire, Borough of Preston.
§ Frederick Wolfe Astbury, esquire, Borough of Salford (West Division).
§ William Lindsey Everard, esquire, County of Leicester (Melton Division).
§ Lawrence Kimball, esquire, County of Leicester (Loughborough Division).
29§ Neville Woodford Smith-Carington, esquire, County of Parts of Kesteven and Rutland (Rutland and Stamford Division).
§ George Gibson Mitcheson, esquire, Borough of St. Pancras (South-West Division).
§ James Archibald Christie, esquire, County of Norfolk (Southern Division).
§ Arthur Ratcliffe, esquire, County of Stafford (Leek Division).
§ Thomas Bridgehill Wilson Ramsay, esquire, County of Inverness, Ross and Cromarty (Western Isles Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Vincent Kempenfelt Applin, County of Middlesex (Enfield Division).
§ Joseph Gurney Braithwaite, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Hillsborough Division).
§ Gordon Cosmo Touche, esquire, County of Surrey (Reigate Division).
§ Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys, esquire, commonly called the honourable Charles Arthur Uryan Rhys, County of Surrey (Guildford Division).
§ Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett, knight, Borough of Cardiff (Central Division).
§ Arthur Cecil Caporn, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (West Division).
§ Colonel Bernard Cruddas, D.S.O., County of Northumberland (Wansbeck Division).
§ Godfrey Nicholson, esquire, Borough of Morpeth.
§ William Paterson Templeton, esquire, County of Lanark (Coatbridge Division).
§ Florence Horsbrugh, Burgh of Dundee.
§ Sir Samuel Chapman, knight, Burgh of Edinburgh (South Division).
§ John Hamilton McKie, esquire, County of Galloway.
§ Charles Urie Peat, esquire, Borough of Darlington.
§ John Roland Robinson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Widnes Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel George Windsor-Clive, County of Salop (Ludlow Division).
§ Walter Sydney Liddall, esquire, Borough of Lincoln.
§ Michael John Hunter, esquire, County of Parts of Lindsey (Brigg Division).
§ Frederick Alexander Macquisten, esquire, County of Argyll.
§ Stuart James Bevan, esquire, Borough of Holborn.
§ Richard John Soper, esquire, Borough of Barnsley.
30§ Joseph Alexander Leckie, esquire, Borough of Walsall.
§ Patrick Munro, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Llandaff and Barry Division).
§ George Brown Hillman, esquire, M.B.E., Borough of Wakefield.
§ Henry James Scrymgeour Wedderburn, esquire, County of Renfrew (Western Division).
§ Colonel Leonard Ropner, M.C., County of York, West Riding (Barkston Ash Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller, baronet, Borough of Northampton.
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, D.S.O., Borough of Croydon (North Division).
§ Harold Paton Mitchell, esquire, County of Middlesex (Brentford and Chiswick Division).
§ Sir Reginald Henry Craddock, the University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol, and the University of Reading.
§ Patrick William Donner, esquire, Borough of Islington (West Division).
§ Arthur Conrad Reed, esquire, Borough of Exeter.
§ Sir William Brass, knight, County of Lancaster (Clitheroe Division).
§ Lieutenant Roger John Edward Conant, County of Derby (Chesterfield Division).
§ Robert Spear Hudson, esquire, Borough of Southport.
§ Harold Keats Hales, esquire, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Hanley Division).
§ William George Cove, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Aberavon Division).
§ Charles Duncan, esquire, County of Derby (Clay Cross Division).
§ William Thomas Shaw, esquire, County of Forfar.
§ Sir Alfred Lane Beit, baronet, Borough of St. Pancras (South-East Division).
§ Cuthbert Morley Headlam, esquire, County of Durham (Barnard Castle Division).
§ Sir Park Goff, knight, Borough of Rochester (Chatham Division).
§ John Wallace, esquire, Dunfermline District of Burghs.
§ James Alexander Lovat-Fraser, esquire, County of Stafford (Lichfield Division).
31§ Captain the Right honourable Douglas Hewitt Hacking, County of Lancaster (Chorley Division).
§ Dennis Augustine Hanley, esquire, Borough of Deptford.
§ Brigadier-General John James Henry Nation, C.V.O., D.S.O., Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (East Division).
§ Clyde Tabor Wilson, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (West Toxteth Division).
§ James Dale Cassels, esquire, K.C., Borough of Camberwell (North-West Division).
§ Tom Forrest Howard, esquire, D.C.M., Borough of Islington (South Division).
§ Sir William Lane Mitchell, knight, Borough of Wandsworth (Streatham Division).
§ Cyril Atkinson, esquire, K.C., County of Chester (Altrincham Division).
§ Aled Owen Roberts, esquire, County of Denbigh (Wrexham Division).
§ James Alexander Lawson Duncan, esquire, Borough of Kensington (North Division).
§ Sir Robert William Aske, baronet, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (East Division).
§ Megan Arvon Lloyd George, County of Anglesey.
§ Sir Charles Coupar Barrie, K.B.E., Borough of Southampton.
§ Edward Charles Grenfell, esquire, City of London.
§ Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst, Borough of Manchester (Moss Side Division).
§ William Allen, esquire, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Burslem Division).
§ Sir Alfred Joseph Law, knight, County of Derby (High Peak Division).
§ Commander Arthur Marsden, R.N. (retired), Borough of Battersea (North Division).
§ Sir John James Withers, knight, Cambridge University.
§ Henry Cobden Haslam, esquire, County of Parts of Lindsey (Horncastle Division).
§ John Jestyn Llewellin, esquire, County of Middlesex (Uxbridge Division).
§ Valentine La Touche McEntee, esquire, Borough of Walthamstow (West Division).
§ Robert Arthur James Gascoyne Cecil, esquire, commonly called Viscount Cranborne, County of Dorset (Southern Division).
§ Louis Halle Gluckstein, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (East Division).
32§ Samuel Samuel, esquire, Borough of Wandsworth (Putney Division).
§ Robert Geoffrey Ellis, esquire, County of Hants (Winchester Division).
§ Sir Walter Dorling Smiles, knight, Borough of Blackburn.
§ George Sampson Elliston, esquire, Borough of Blackburn.
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Hamilton Gault, D.S.O., County of Somerset (Taunton Division).
§ Sir Jonah Walker Smith, knight, Borough of Barrow-in-Furness.
§ Sir Murdoch Macdonald, K.C.M.G., C.B., County of Inverness, Ross and Cromarty (Inverness Division).
§ Linton Theodore Thorp esquire, Borough of Nelson and Colne.
§ Edward Anthony Strauss, esquire, Borough of Southwark (North Division).
§ Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Kincardine and Western Division).
§ Robert Workman Smith, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Central Division).
§ Sir Charles William Cayzer, baronet, County of Chester (City of Chester Division).
§ Sir Joseph McConnell, baronet, County of Antrim.
§ Barnett, Janner, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Whitechapel and St. George's Division).
§ Adrian Charles Moreing, esquire, Borough of Preston.
§ Sir Samuel Roberts, baronet, Borough of Sheffield (Ecclesall Division).
§ Edward Lancelot Mallalieu, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Colne Valley Division).
§ Sir Ernest Gordon Graham Graham-Little, knight, London University.
§ Alfred Denville, esquire, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Central Division).
§ Maurice Petherick, esquire, County of Cornwall (Penryn and Falmouth Division).
§ Nigel Claudian Dalziel Col man, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Brixton Division).
§ Herbert Holdsworth, esquire, Borough of Bradford (South Division).
§ Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, K.B.E., Oxford University.
§ George Arthur Victor Duckworth, esquire, County of Salop (Shrewsbury Division).
33§ Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander, esquire, Borough of Wolverhampton (East Division).
§ Richard Kidston Law, esquire, Borough of Kingston-on-Hull (South-West Division).
§ Major David John Colville, County of Midlothian and Peebles (Northern Division).
§ Sir George William Henry Jones, knight, Borough of Stoke Newington.
§ Joseph Paton Maclay, esquire, commonly called the honourable Joseph Paton Maclay, Burgh of Paisley.
§ Captain John de Vere Loder, County of East Sussex (Lewes Division).
§ Captain Arthur Oswald James Hope, Borough of Birmingham (Aston Division).
§ Brigadier-General Edward Louis Spears, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., Borough of Carlisle.
§ Lieutenant-Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, Borough of Wallasey.
§ Edgar Louis Granville, esquire, County of East Suffolk (Eye Division).
§ Colonel Sir George Loyd Courthope, baronet, M.C., County of East Sussex (Rye Division).
§ Reginald George Clarry, esquire, Borough of Newport.
§ Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Moseley Division).
§ Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp, baronet, Borough of Walthamstow (East Division).
§ Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, baronet, M.C., County of Parts of Kesteven and Rutland (Grantham Division).
§ Hubert John Duggan, esquire, County of Middlesex (Acton Division).
§ Henry Frederick Thynne, esquire, commonly called Viscount Weymouth, County of Somerset (Frome Division).
§ John Rumney Remer, esquire, County of Chester (Macclesfield Division).
§ Herbert Wragg, esquire, County of Derby (Belper Division).
§ Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (East Toxteth Division).
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan, knight, O.B.E., Borough of Fulham (East Division).
34§ Eight honourable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, County of Essex (Epping Division).
§ Brendan Bracken, esquire, Borough of Paddington (North Division).
§ John Sydney Wardlaw-Milne, esquire, County of Worcester (Kidderminster Division).
§ Captain Maurice Harold Macmillan, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.
§ Edward Anthony James Lytton, esquire, commonly called Viscount Knebworth, County of Hertford (Hitchin Division).
§ Geoffrey William Lloyd, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Ladywood Division).
§ Ronald Deane Ross, esquire, County of Londonderry.
§ Captain Malcolm Bullock, County of Lancaster (Waterloo Division).
§ Robert John Graham Boothby, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Eastern Division).
§ William John Stewart, esquire, Borough of Belfast (South Belfast Division).
§ Sir Robert Vaughan Gower, knight, O.B.E., Borough of Rochester (Gillingham Division).
§ John Francis Eastwood, esquire, County of Northampton, with the Soke of Peterborough (Kettering Division).
§ William James O'Donovan, esquire, O.B.E., Borough of Stepney (Mile End Division).
§ Arthur Leonard Bateman, esquire, Borough of Camberwell (North Division).
§ Joseph Hunter, esquire, County of Dumfries.
§ Samuel Vyvyan Trerice Adams, esquire, Borough of Leeds (West Division).
§ Sir Joseph Nall, Borough of Manchester (Hulme Division).
§ William Pomeroy Crawford Greene, esquire, Borough of Worcester.
§ Thomas Lowel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, esquire, Borough of Bath.